Guilty :3

... if anyone wants really wants Zeus-choking please read the bonus chapter in Zeus Constant otherwise standby for the Persephone Effect which is totally full of Normal Regular Wholesome Interactions

I feel tremendously lucky I get to work with some of my favorite writers, @devi.bsky.social and @callistokhan.bsky.social. As our newest co-author, Callisto really brings a poetic sensibility and fascination with classical sources to the project.

if a taller girl asks you if she can be the little spoon tonight and you say no you're going straight to hell no matter what

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

New Persephone Effect preview--the cast list! Going bigger, longer, and somewhat more Locked-Tomb-y. #gunmetalolympus What are those blocked-out names about? Don't worry about it.

Pussy from a girl I'm in love with >>>>>>>>>>>>

"transgender ideology" 😒

We're at the "that's enough sex, it's time for murder" part of the Persephone Effect

It's easier to count the kisses in Persephone effect that *don't* involve blood.

I remember this happening to Gideon when TLT first came out because she's buff, flirts with every hot woman she sees, and is easily manipulable by an older woman. And here's the thing, men can share those traits but her being a woman contours these interactions through their positionality. Even

the perfect man is both pathetic and homosexual

women are beautiful. at least in the top five most beautiful kinds of food there are.

the difference between a tragedy and a hard-won happy ending is whether or not the cathartic sex scene you've been yearning for comes before or after the heroic sacrifice

Very clever authors will use your relationship to the characters to their advantage. The Iliad, for example, is known for its lengthy expository death scenes, and even my eyes glaze over when Random Soldier #5 dies. But when Patroclus dies and Achilles grieves, it hits you.

One issue I find in low-stakes conflict books is that the narrative gives the characters what they so badly want far too early. Which is nice! What a lovely world to live in... but then there are No Stakes. There's no story at that point.

The thing about conflict is that it's a value neutral tool. You can have very low-stakes conflict "feel" really important. Most commercial romance books operate on really low-stakes conflict - like miscommunication - by grounding and connecting you with the character experiencing those emotions.

Unreal how cute this is

Something I quite like about GO is the texture of relationships and the degree to which characters are allowed to just suck sometimes. Two characters who canonically have tried to kill each other at least once while covering for each other on the battlefield is just exciting to me.

Not now kitten mommy is being tried for being a witch

One-shotted by this if any cis lesbians want to do this to me my dms and entire life are open to you

Let me translate: you have to be horny for the machine. You gotta get really niche and specific, a little terrifying, and deeply horny for the machine.

Mecha, like say superheroes, is a very visual genre--meaning that if you're writing *prose* fiction for it, you really have to offer something existing visual media doesn't have.

you explain concepts with fictional science: sci fi you explain concepts with inexplicable legends (positive): fantasy you explain concepts with inexplicable legends (negative): horror

every morning i do state-mandated maoist struggle sessions with my Male Socialization™ as a penance ritual and it's a Kingdom Hearts boss battle where i'm fighting a fucked up and evil version of myself in the Dive to the Heart. i learned how to do double jump air flips (Female Socialization)

The persephone effect is an excercise in trying to remember which one of us was responsible for each of the variously weird and strange sex acts.

It is in the patriarchal state's interest to suppress and limit stories where women express rough and rich sexual desires for other women. Love and sex between women is antithetical to patriarchy. Be wary of reactionaries that try to restrict f/f to being pure and palateable and assimilationist.

Got really confused I thought this was a TLT thing...

"If Man did not exist it would be necessary for God to create him" - Fujo Voltaire

HAHAHA

Me and @devi.bsky.social are doing our level best

Time-traveller attempting to explain to Sappho that the genre named after her is the one where women are less likely to fuck each other.

Yaoi readers though, now that's an underserved group. Elysium fujos have gotta be starved and feral

Imagine being gay in Elysium there are no yaoi gods to pray to

Something interesting about men being so rare in Elysium is that masculinity is the domain of women and nonbinary people. Men in Elysium lean into it, sure, but the dominant way they would have learned masculinity is from women and nonbinary people, and I think that's really fascinating.

While someone can "be" straight in elysium it would be roughly the equivalent of saying "I only date redheads" since men are probably not even one percent of the population

CIA/FBI defense in the year of our lord 2025 come on man. be for real.

i need everyone to kill the "egg prime directive" ciscentrism nonsense immediately in a world where they are going to claim transness does not exist, thus condemning trans kids or anyone who may potentially be trans to nonexistence and death. more than ever one must be open about trans possibilities

"you can't ship everyone with everyone else" you can't. because you don't have the courage. i can, because i am very brave.

Adrastus, I think

Persephone, I think

This image is deceiving as we, each of us, cycle into being the hydra head on the right.

How profoundly rude to name one of the authors least equipped to do anything interesting with ASOIF

You're all liking this but knowing bee she means physically melt in some horrifying kink way

cisness is natural and simply the way of the world we can tell because of the fact that it requires strict and violent enforcement to maintain

It's extremely convenient for lesbian writing that needles and arrows have "shafts."

Apologies everyone we simply weren't satisfied with one climax :)

"talking about sex" talks about this kinda

I would recommend the Locked Tomb to queers who are "scared of women 😱" and Hades Calculus to those who are "scared of women 🥴"